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	~L~SLAVE STOBIES	Page One
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JOJJ BAB~1E8, 89, was born In Tiler Co. ‚ Texas ~ on Jim Sapp ‚ s plant at loi. He is very feeble, but keeps his great grand.children in line while their mother works. They live in Beaumont. Joe Is
		tall, slight, and has gray hair
		and. a stu~bby gray mustache. In
		his kind, geitle voice he relates
	~	his experiences in slavery days.




	“Dey calls me Paul Barnes, but my name ain‘t Paul, it am Joe.

My massa was Jim sapp ‚ up here in Tyler County, and in I s sus ~ iaxne was
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LnJ~. J~ Sapp place was b~t and dey raise ‚ a sight of cotton and corn.

Old. massa Jim he h9ve ‚ bout 25 or 30 slaves.

~	nz~me was irtimiel, but ~ey call her Emily, and

pa‘s name Jerry, Woote~ ‚ tcause he live on de Wooten place. My steppa named Barnes and I t aken dat name ‚ ~y parent s ‚ dey have de broomstick weddli‘.

	“!hen I~s a chile us play marbles and run rabbits and ride de stick hoss and de like. When I gits more bigger, us play ball ‚ sort of like baseball. One time my brudder go git de hosses and dey lots . of rain aid de creek swol]. up high. De water so fast it wash him off he hosa and. I am t t seed him sInce. Dey never find de body. He ‚ s ‚ bout ten year old. den,

	t‘ Massa live in de big box hmse and de qp,arters am in a row : : ±1 de back. Same of dem box and some of dem log,. Dey have two rooms.

: ~ d.ay de big, old oowhorn blow for dinner and. us have de 1 ittle t in ::;.ηu.p what us git potlicker 1* and neat and. cornbread and. salt bacon. Us

gits green2) to o. De chimneys ‚ bout four feet widea n d dey cooks evezy _ ~i~g in de fireplace. Dey have pots end. ovens and put fire below and
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